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Resilient urban futures
This open access book addresses the way in which urban and urbanizing regions profoundly impact and are impacted by climate change. The editors and authors show why cities must wage simultaneous battles to curb global climate change trends while adapting and transforming to address local climate impacts. This book addresses how cities develop anticipatory and long-range planning capacities for …
- Edition
- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030631314
- Collation
- xi, 190p. : ill.
- Series Title
- The Urban Book Series
- Call Number
- 307.1216 RES r
Working, Housing: Urbanizing : The International Year of Global Understanding…
This book presents an incisive outline of the historical development and geography of cities. It focuses on three themes that constitute essential foundations for any understanding of urban form and function. These are: (a) the shifting patterns of urbanization through historical time, (b) the role of cities as centers of production and work in a globalizing world, and (c) the diverse housing …
- Edition
- Ed. 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783319451800
- Collation
- XV, 60
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 307.76 Rob
Smart and sustainable planning for cities and regions : results of SSPCR 2015
This open access book offers a selection of research papers and case studies presented at the 3rd international conference “Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions”, held in December 2019 in Bolzano, Italy, and explores the concept of smart and sustainable planning, including top contributions from academics, policy makers, consultants and other professionals. Innovation pr…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030577643
- Collation
- xvii, 307p. : ill.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 307.1216 SMA s
Urban socio-economic segregation and income inequality : a global perspective
This open access book investigates the link between income inequality and socio-economic residential segregation in 24 large urban regions in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America. It offers a unique global overview of segregation trends based on case studies by local author teams. The book shows important global trends in segregation, and proposes a Global Segregati…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030645694
- Collation
- ix, 523p. : ill.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 339.2 URB u
Railway ecology
This book provides a unique overview of the impacts of railways on biodiversity, integrating the existing knowledge on the ecological effects of railways on wildlife, identifying major knowledge gaps and research directions and presenting the emerging field of railway ecology. The book is divided into two major parts: Part one offers a general review of the major conceptual and theoretical p…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783319574967
- Collation
- xxx, 320p. : ill.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 577 RAI r
Housing estates in Europe : poverty, ethnic segregation and policy challenges
This open access book explores the formation and socio-spatial trajectories of large housing estates in Europe. Are these estates clustered or scattered? Which social groups originally had access to residential space in housing estates? What is the size, scale and geography of housing estates, their architectural and built environment composition, services and neighbourhood amenities, and metro…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783319928135
- Collation
- xiv, 424p. : ill.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 307.768 HOU h
The places where community Is practiced : how store owners and their business…
In this open access publication, the social cohesion of urban neighborhoods and their residents is examined, which is often viewed as vulnerable since increased mobility, individualization, wider socio-economic and demographic changes have fundamentally altered the basis for everyday social interaction in urban neighborhoods. Anna Steigemann gives scholarly attention to the concrete places wher…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783658253936
- Collation
- xiii, 325p. : ill.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 307.33 STE p
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